Transcript of an interview with Commander Edmund Thomassen, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a naval officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Thomassen discusses the New York State Merchant Marine Academy in 1941, his assignment to the USS Sheridan (APA 51), Tarawa landing, Marshall Island landings, Saipan landing, his assignment to Newport, Rhode Island, his assignment to the USS Dutchess for amphibious landings, and his Korean War experiences.

Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing recent correspondence and getting a job with the Red Cross. The postcard features an image of clouds from an airliner window, flanked by curtains.

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing mechanical difficulties with an airplane, dinner with an Air Corps lieutenant, typing reports, flying to and from Newark, more mechanical problems, and waiting to travel to New York and Dallas.

Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.

Letter from Captain Thomas Kuenning to Mickey McLernon discussing how he feels about being in Africa.

Letter from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing his friends' deployment to Africa, Mickey's job as a mechanic, and making conversation.

Letter from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing past correspondence.

Photograph of John Todd Willis, Jr. in his army uniform.